الملخص الإنجليزي
This study aims to discover the important of information in building the Parliamentary tools in the Shura Council of Oman through exploring the members awareness of the importance of the information and their sources to support the parliamentary tools. It also investigate the information seeking behavior of Members of the Shura council, besides the obstacles facing them to find such authentic information for the parliamentary work.
The study concluded that the members of Shura Council were aware of the importance of information in building the parliamentary tools but their opinions varied on the importance of the information for the Council Bureau when adopting the parliamentary tools, besides the response of the government concerning the same. The results showed the sources of the information used by the members are official sources such as the government publications and internal official sources. The study also discovered the members use unofficial sources of information. The results of the study indicated the information seeking behaviour of members revolve around the requirements and tasks of parliamentary work. As for the nature of the information used in parliamentary tools, the results of the study in this topic varied between the content analysis tool, and what the study sample members mentioned in the semi-open interview. The results of the study also revealed the existence of a set of challenges that impede the use of information in building parliamentary tools, which are administrative challenges, legal challenges, challenges related to the human cadre in the General Secretariat of the Council, technical challenges, and personal challenges of members.
Finally, the study concluded with a number of recommendations to deal with this issue. First, there is necessity to provide a procedural guide to manage information sources for the parliamentary tools and approves several Standards and controls for the Bureau Office approval of the parliamentary tools. The Internal Regulations of the Council should include legal articles to deal with the leak of the government response for the Council requirements of information, and adopt a law for the right of obtaining the information from the Government.
